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General | Posted 12 years agoI've been terribly sick. orz
It started after I helped for the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. It was just for one day. Ugh. I'm a wimp. OTL Then it got worse after that.
But it might also because of my sleeping habit, and not eating and getting out much. = w =;
My voice still sounds different and still coughs out phlegm, but at least my body stopped aching and I no longer have fevers.
And good news! I can color again. * A*
Yey for dual monitor.
But I still have to get a new pc.
I also want to say that I apologize that the commissions are taking so long. orz I'm still doing them, don't worry.
It started after I helped for the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. It was just for one day. Ugh. I'm a wimp. OTL Then it got worse after that.
But it might also because of my sleeping habit, and not eating and getting out much. = w =;
My voice still sounds different and still coughs out phlegm, but at least my body stopped aching and I no longer have fevers.
And good news! I can color again. * A*
Yey for dual monitor.
But I still have to get a new pc.
I also want to say that I apologize that the commissions are taking so long. orz I'm still doing them, don't worry.
How do you beat an art block and being jaded?
General | Posted 12 years agoI've been feeling this for a few days now, with the usual headaches lol. I'm not satisfied with the things I've drawn lately= ___=;
Oh and I joined SoFurry.
Oh and I joined SoFurry.
Hey there! Centaur Adopts, Commissions and more
General | Posted 12 years agoI really wanted to try selling adopts but I dunno if it's alright with painting them traditionally.
These are the adoptables I wanted to sell. I have yet to do the character sheets though. But now I dunno if I'll sell them because I became attached with these characters. ^^;Would anyone be interested with them though?
Also I've updated some of the commission wips (link below). I'm very sorry with taking so much time, and not updating regularly. It's still very hard without my own computer.
And I only have 4 slots left, if anyone's interested.
Oh and remember the raffle I did long ago, here're some wips of them too.
// SKETCH COMMISSION // COMMISSION WIPS //
Commission Status and Important Stuff
General | Posted 12 years agoHello everyone!
Thinking about things for a long time now. My friends, family, and someone from this community also talked to me about it. There's a lot of posts about it in tumblr too, regarding how artists who price their art low, affects the art industry, or other freelance artists in a negative way.
I'm not gonna link those articles, as they are easy to find. I would like to say that with my last price range I already thought its more than enough. Working as a clean-up background artist in an animation company before, with a payment per folder (that has a lot of pages that depends on the given scene), it's makes me want to cry realizing how bad the situation is here. Especially with the artists here in the Philippines. I've already rant about this thing, sort of, in my past journal entry, I think. (uhh, I dunno I'm too sleepy orz)
Art is not important for the masses here. In the end, I still I live in a third world. = u =
Moving on. I increased my price up to where I'm still comfortable at. I put a lot of research, do anatomy studies, and sometimes I construct perspective guides, and piece them all together, all done manually. Except for research, but that's understandable ^^;
It takes hours to prepare that, a lot of time before I even start the final sketch (that takes me at least 8 hours, now that I've timed it, just the final sketch). That's also why I can't charge per hour. It won't be fair if I do... I think.
I do think that I deserve charging the price I have now.
I'm not ranting though, I love doing detailed work. I just get lost in it, if you get that feeling. Most of the time I didn't intend for the sketch to be detailed, it just brought itself to that, if I may say. haha...orz
Regarding the pending commissions and prizes:
To the commissioners, I'm sorry it's taking so long, but I can assure you that I'm working on it. There were days that I can't draw, and just got around to fixing my sched. recently.
For the prizes, I'm experimenting. XD
Hah... there're painting and sketching styles I wanted to do. So... ^^;
I'll just surprise you two.
Thinking about things for a long time now. My friends, family, and someone from this community also talked to me about it. There's a lot of posts about it in tumblr too, regarding how artists who price their art low, affects the art industry, or other freelance artists in a negative way.
I'm not gonna link those articles, as they are easy to find. I would like to say that with my last price range I already thought its more than enough. Working as a clean-up background artist in an animation company before, with a payment per folder (that has a lot of pages that depends on the given scene), it's makes me want to cry realizing how bad the situation is here. Especially with the artists here in the Philippines. I've already rant about this thing, sort of, in my past journal entry, I think. (uhh, I dunno I'm too sleepy orz)
Art is not important for the masses here. In the end, I still I live in a third world. = u =
Moving on. I increased my price up to where I'm still comfortable at. I put a lot of research, do anatomy studies, and sometimes I construct perspective guides, and piece them all together, all done manually. Except for research, but that's understandable ^^;
It takes hours to prepare that, a lot of time before I even start the final sketch (that takes me at least 8 hours, now that I've timed it, just the final sketch). That's also why I can't charge per hour. It won't be fair if I do... I think.
I do think that I deserve charging the price I have now.
I'm not ranting though, I love doing detailed work. I just get lost in it, if you get that feeling. Most of the time I didn't intend for the sketch to be detailed, it just brought itself to that, if I may say. haha...orz
Regarding the pending commissions and prizes:
To the commissioners, I'm sorry it's taking so long, but I can assure you that I'm working on it. There were days that I can't draw, and just got around to fixing my sched. recently.
For the prizes, I'm experimenting. XD
Hah... there're painting and sketching styles I wanted to do. So... ^^;
I'll just surprise you two.
// SKETCH COMMISSION // COMMISSION WIPS //
Winners for Free sketch and painted bust/heatshot!!!
General | Posted 12 years agoI'm multitasking on things and have terrible internet connection, so sorry for being late OTL....
And so,
the winners are...
Extrasi and Tamara! Congratulations!
Here's the print screen
Thanks everyone!
I have to sleep first though, I'll message both of you when I get up XDFree sketch and painted bust/head shot!!!
General | Posted 12 years agoI'm gone for the past few days, still shorter than the other time I was mia, but still this is really nice, thank you new watchers! I'm grateful for my commissioners who promoted me, it's really their help that I've got these new watchers here. Specially tidmatiger and VindictiivesPet. And to all the other people I forgot to mention. Also, thank you Taala for guidance. You're all wonderful people.
And so, as a thank you, I'll be doing a sketch headshot/bust, and painted version for free!
Just comment down below if you want to take part. Then I'll use list randomizer to pick the usernames of the two winners. Picking will happen this coming Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, 12am GMT+8. First person on the list will have a free painted headshot/bust, and the second person will have the free sketch. I'll post a screen shot of the results. _____________________________________________________________________
In other news, still working on sketch commissions. The four slots I mentioned in my last journal entry expanded to 8, lol. When I'm done with all of the remaining sketches, that's when I'll upload them, then open up sketch commissions again. XD
Still trying to work on some adoptables, lol. I really want to try this, because it's a good practice for character designs. My last experiment didn't go well, haha. Maybe it's the price, I'm confused with all these things ^^; so I've put it on scraps. I like that bunny character I did, even if its not that good, and I decided to keep it.
My next adoptable experiment will have something to do with hooves. hehe
Thanks for reading!
10-15 USD Commissions Open!
General | Posted 12 years agoMight as well make a journal, uh signal boost for it. If people still read journals.
As the title says, I'm opening again but just for pencil sketches, because I can't do digital art at the moment.
Still have 4 slots left! After the slots been filled, I'll close again and concentrate on my portrait paintings and other things. So what are you waiting for? Read about it here!
Thanks everyone!
As the title says, I'm opening again but just for pencil sketches, because I can't do digital art at the moment.
Still have 4 slots left! After the slots been filled, I'll close again and concentrate on my portrait paintings and other things. So what are you waiting for? Read about it here!
Thanks everyone!
I'm not dead. Sorry for being away. ; u;
General | Posted 12 years agoHey there!
(I’m apologizing in advance for this long entry)
Sorry for being gone so long. So long that I forgot how to make journal entry to edit things here in my FA page haha. Wow, my last entry was May 2nd...orz
Oh man, I’m really sorry. If people here are still interested in this lowly me, please hear me out. My life was like a roller coaster the past year. On those months when I started to become slow at producing art, I went back to school (excluding my ear infection incident that also happened)-- or more like, started on a different course at a different school, an IT school-- and got too busy. I was trying to become a game designer, or programmer. It’s one of my dreams to produce games and do animation. Not just the art, but also how its world works, so I enrolled for an advance diploma in gaming and animation technology.
It wasn’t a good school. A lot of issues popped up and other things happened in that school, but I’m not going to delve further. I want to move on and forget those. The gaming course in that school was just being introduced. First and second sem weren’t even related to the program I was going to. My other subjects--as I’m a fine arts-advertising student dropout, from another university--weren’t credited. They said that they have a different curriculum. So I dealt with it. In my mind I told myself foundation years are important. They said my batch will be the first batch in that course, so I also accepted the lack of facilities. After a few months, the school closed. We were then transferred to a different branch. They don’t even teach that course there. So yeah, here comes the third sem. I found out I was the only girl in the program...of six students, in that gaming and animation course. Few weeks passed, still no professors or instructors to teach us the major subjects. The other minor computer subjects, teaches outdated programming lessons. I was really into it, so I researched, gathered books and stuff. I remember one class I attended, the instructor even taught wrong commands for us to type. He didn’t even explain them and just copied the commands from his book. He left us to work, and when he was out of the classroom, fortunately one of my classmates corrected the instructor’s notes on the whiteboard and told the rest of us that what he wrote was incorrect.
After three weeks had passed, the instructor that will teach us in the gaming subjects had arrived. I found out he was just a student, a classmate of my former classmates (from first and second sem) who was getting an IT course. He’s a brilliant mathematics teacher, he’s really good and proficient in making flash games, so I thought to myself that it’s alright--even though he fully admit that he can’t teach most of the things listed in the curriculum, except math—and I stayed put.
I was slowly descending back to depression again because of these reasons. The horrible incidents that happened in first and second sem was already a big blow on me and I thought that it’s going be alright, because I won’t be with the same people this time. But the lack of facilities, lack of instructors, outdated lessons were draining, with the long hours of travelling to boot too. I can learn more by myself researching in the library and online for less, or for free. What really sealed the deal on why I left that IT school were their so called international exams. It was fast approaching, and we’re not ready. We don’t really need it, it’s too expensive, and with the quality of their lessons and teaching methods, we won’t be able to answer it. It will be a waste of money, so I stopped.
After a few days I met someone from the animation industry who works as a clean-up background artist and worked as a clean-up bg artist too. It was great, finally I’m in and doing one of my dreams. The problem was, the salary is too small for the amount of folders they will give you. The issue was mostly political. I can’t understand why they are treating their artist as slaves and the bosses all get higher salaries, and why the artists here just stays quiet about it. It’s lower beyond the minimum wage, not even enough for food and transportation expenses if you won’t really push it. I’m lucky it’s quite near my home but I get sick most of the time because of the lack of sleep and not eating regularly to meet the deadlines. I remember that guy that could work on forty folders minimum per week, if he could work outside the Philippines with the same amount of effort he does, he’ll be rich now. It’s a nice working experience though, and most of the people there are nice, I miss most of them so much but I won’t go back.
So now what am I doing, painting and painting some more, haha, but with traditional media. Currently, I’m a self-proclaimed portrait artist, lol. My computer’s busted for a long time now and it’s hindering with my plan to get back on being a graphic artist and illustrator (and with my studies with animation and programming). I will take part on a group exhibit this coming December though, so I’m also preparing my piece.
And that’s that. I’m sorry for this long entry and thank you for taking some time to read it.
(I’m apologizing in advance for this long entry)
Sorry for being gone so long. So long that I forgot how to make journal entry to edit things here in my FA page haha. Wow, my last entry was May 2nd...orz
Oh man, I’m really sorry. If people here are still interested in this lowly me, please hear me out. My life was like a roller coaster the past year. On those months when I started to become slow at producing art, I went back to school (excluding my ear infection incident that also happened)-- or more like, started on a different course at a different school, an IT school-- and got too busy. I was trying to become a game designer, or programmer. It’s one of my dreams to produce games and do animation. Not just the art, but also how its world works, so I enrolled for an advance diploma in gaming and animation technology.
It wasn’t a good school. A lot of issues popped up and other things happened in that school, but I’m not going to delve further. I want to move on and forget those. The gaming course in that school was just being introduced. First and second sem weren’t even related to the program I was going to. My other subjects--as I’m a fine arts-advertising student dropout, from another university--weren’t credited. They said that they have a different curriculum. So I dealt with it. In my mind I told myself foundation years are important. They said my batch will be the first batch in that course, so I also accepted the lack of facilities. After a few months, the school closed. We were then transferred to a different branch. They don’t even teach that course there. So yeah, here comes the third sem. I found out I was the only girl in the program...of six students, in that gaming and animation course. Few weeks passed, still no professors or instructors to teach us the major subjects. The other minor computer subjects, teaches outdated programming lessons. I was really into it, so I researched, gathered books and stuff. I remember one class I attended, the instructor even taught wrong commands for us to type. He didn’t even explain them and just copied the commands from his book. He left us to work, and when he was out of the classroom, fortunately one of my classmates corrected the instructor’s notes on the whiteboard and told the rest of us that what he wrote was incorrect.
After three weeks had passed, the instructor that will teach us in the gaming subjects had arrived. I found out he was just a student, a classmate of my former classmates (from first and second sem) who was getting an IT course. He’s a brilliant mathematics teacher, he’s really good and proficient in making flash games, so I thought to myself that it’s alright--even though he fully admit that he can’t teach most of the things listed in the curriculum, except math—and I stayed put.
I was slowly descending back to depression again because of these reasons. The horrible incidents that happened in first and second sem was already a big blow on me and I thought that it’s going be alright, because I won’t be with the same people this time. But the lack of facilities, lack of instructors, outdated lessons were draining, with the long hours of travelling to boot too. I can learn more by myself researching in the library and online for less, or for free. What really sealed the deal on why I left that IT school were their so called international exams. It was fast approaching, and we’re not ready. We don’t really need it, it’s too expensive, and with the quality of their lessons and teaching methods, we won’t be able to answer it. It will be a waste of money, so I stopped.
After a few days I met someone from the animation industry who works as a clean-up background artist and worked as a clean-up bg artist too. It was great, finally I’m in and doing one of my dreams. The problem was, the salary is too small for the amount of folders they will give you. The issue was mostly political. I can’t understand why they are treating their artist as slaves and the bosses all get higher salaries, and why the artists here just stays quiet about it. It’s lower beyond the minimum wage, not even enough for food and transportation expenses if you won’t really push it. I’m lucky it’s quite near my home but I get sick most of the time because of the lack of sleep and not eating regularly to meet the deadlines. I remember that guy that could work on forty folders minimum per week, if he could work outside the Philippines with the same amount of effort he does, he’ll be rich now. It’s a nice working experience though, and most of the people there are nice, I miss most of them so much but I won’t go back.
So now what am I doing, painting and painting some more, haha, but with traditional media. Currently, I’m a self-proclaimed portrait artist, lol. My computer’s busted for a long time now and it’s hindering with my plan to get back on being a graphic artist and illustrator (and with my studies with animation and programming). I will take part on a group exhibit this coming December though, so I’m also preparing my piece.
And that’s that. I’m sorry for this long entry and thank you for taking some time to read it.
